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Will Trump’s Threats to Defund Colleges Over ‘Antisemitic Propaganda’ Become a Reality?

Ever since pro-Palestinian student protests began last fall in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, universities have been in the political hot seat. Politicians—especially, but not exclusively, Republicans—have harshly criticized institutions for allowing such protests, which they often characterized as antisemitic, on their campuses. Many protesters and their supporters, meanwhile, argue that their actions are not antisemitic and that, in fact, anti-Arab and Islamophobic bias has ballooned over the past year.


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